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Many evangelicals are selling their souls in defense of President Donald Trump. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Dallas Church, however, takes the cake. He told Fox & Friends Sunday that, “The Bible says even heaven itself is gonna have a wall around it. Not everyone is going to be allowed in.”

In all my years of Catholic education, I don’t remember the nuns teaching me about a wall around Heaven. But even as a child I would have wondered why God would need a wall to keep people out. Is Jeffress suggesting that, without a wall, people could escape from hell and sneak into heaven? I would think Jeffress’ all-powerful God would have a fix for that without building a wall...

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